It all started when he went for his usual morning walk on Feb. 6. He was just steps from the median on Crayton Road when, "Bang! I was hit and thrown about 10-feet down Park Shore Drive."

Witnesses said a white four-door Mercedes with an older blonde woman behind the wheel hit Thibeault, slowed down, and then drove off.

"She knows she hit him, and for her to just leave him in the middle of the street, that's just awful," said Janet Thibeault, Chuck's wife.

Thibeault was airlifted to the trauma center in Fort Myers where he spent five days in the hospital.

"My leg bone had gone to the left of my leg, my foot had gone to the right of my leg and everything was just kind of hanging there."

Naples police spoke to the Thibeaults on Monday for the first time since the accident. An officer told them they had no new information.

"We kind of feel like it's been ignored and if we don't say anything it will go away, but that's not going to happen," said Janet Thibeault.

Thibeault said he feels fortunate, all things considered because it could have been much worse.

"Maybe this hopefully will get people to think a bit more before crossing the street. Just because you have the right of way, don't just assume that you can just cross that street because it's not true."

Anyone with information on the crash or the driver who fled is asked to call the Naples Police Department at (239) 213-4844.